Boring tech behaves in predictable ways. It’s a well trodden path others have evaluated, optimised, troubleshooted, and understood. Using tech that has been subjected to all those people hours of use means you’re less likely to run into edge cases, unexpected behaviour, or attributes and features that lack documentation or community knowledge. — Boring tech is mature, not old
2025-02-11: Modern Statistics with R: From wrangling and exploring data to inference and predictive modelling. #rstats
2025-02-18: Almost two months with new MacBook and I’m back to my old habits using Tmux and Neomutt all day. Apple Mail is fine but I manage my e-mails 3 times faster with neomutt. Likewise, Apple Terminal has been enhanced over the years but nothing beats Tmux when it comes to manage long-running sessions, multiple panes, and paste buffers. That being said I’m happy everything is kept in sync and I can switch to whichever software to suit my mood. #apple
2025-02-18: Lisp as a System Service, or how to use UNIX domain sockets for managing SBCL on a remote machine. #lisp
2025-02-18: Visual explanations of mathematics: Oldies but goodies. #math
2025-02-24:
(…) it’s a good idea to first understand how the system was designed to be used before decrying it as ill-conceived or making it something it isn’t using third-party window managers, app switchers, and so on. — macOS Tips
2025-02-24: More macOS Tips & Tricks. #apple
2025-02-24: 0xProto, with its subtle ligatures, looks great. (via Leah Neukirchen)